Just read your Joyful Curmudgeon re global warming so thought I'd pass
this on to you.

Had this letter published in this weeks local Ranges Trader Mail
newspaper...............(actually I had added ...............You can't claim
that you to want to save the environment, if you are deliberately
contributing to it's demise through your dietary choices.........but they
deleted it.

Lately there has been much talk about global warming and what we can do
to help prevent it.

Whilst some things are difficult to change, there is one incredibly easy
thing that each one of us can do ... or should I say, not do ... that will
save both the environment and our precious water resources. All we have to
do is simply 'not buy' animal products.

The extremely harmful effects of the livestock industry were highlighted
last November in a stunning United Nations report which stated that raising
animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and
trucks in the world combined and that the livestock industry 'is one of the
most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental
problems'. On top of this, the livestock industry is one of the biggest
users of Earth’s increasingly scarce water resources, and contributes
greatly to water pollution from animal waste, antibiotics, hormones,
chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers, and the pesticides used to spray feed
crops. As well, clearing forests to create new pastures is a major source of
deforestation with 70 percent of former rainforests in the Amazon now turned
over to grazing. The forests are the major 'sinks' for removing the
greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

I saw a poster that stated, 'It's impossible to be a meat-eating
environmentalist' and, when you consider the above facts, it's absolutely
true.